Firefly III

Modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many banks.

Active Last commit · 10+ releases in the past year · 2,653 commits in the past 12 months

At a glance

GitHub stars
25.2k
Last commit
2026-10-26
Latest release
develop-20261109.2
2026-11-09
Commits (12 mo)
2.7k
Releases (12 mo)
10+
License
AGPL-3.0
Language / platform
PHP, Docker

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 10+ releases in the past year · 2,653 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub); release counts from the GitHub releases feed (includes pre-releases).

Run Firefly III yourself

  • RAM: ~1 GB server (1 vCPU)
  • Docker: yes

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
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